If you download the app and select the Women on the Map source, you will receive an alert when you pass a significant location. For example, if you pass Le Vésinet in Paris, you will learn about the American-born French dancer, Josephine Baker and if you’re in Lyme Regis, you will learn about paleontologist Mary Anning, who discovered a dinosaur’s fossils.

It’s not that women don’t make history or achieve incredible things, say Spark, it’s that they aren’t being recognised for them.

The group began researching women around the globe (28 countries so far) who have made significant contributions to history and are mapping the locations of their achievements.

Anyone can nominate a woman to be included, either from their hometown or from history, simply by emailing Spark with a 300 word piece about why the candidate deserves to be included.

At the moment, the group are focusing on including women neglected by the history books, telling Time: “We want the project to expand what it means to be part of history.”

Currently, 60% of the stories on the app (just 100) are about women of colour, which serves to emphasise the extent to which ethnic minorities have been left out of the history books.

You can download it here.

Words: Harriet Hall

Images: Rex Features

The new app that literally puts women on the map